Annual report of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire

TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT
In
1991 this office took in a total of $22,978,228.37; this consisted of
Property Tax payments, Lien payments, Land Rents, and Yield Taxes, plus
interest on late payments. We mailed 8358 Property Tax bills for the 1 991
tax levy, 1051 notices of delinquent taxes, 587 certified letters containing
notices of impending tax lien, 229 certified "Notice to Mortgagee" letters,
and 56 certified notices of Intent to Deed.
Liens were executed and recorded against 690 properties, which
represented $ 1 ,447,758.88 in unpaid 1 990 Property Tax. Four parcels were
deeded to the Town for nonpayment of the 1 988 property tax.
All abatements which have been approved by the Board of Selectmen
come to this office for processing as either an abatement or a refund. In
1991, this office handled 1 159 abatements. We also had to deal with 30
"insufficient funds" checks and 55 overpayment refunds.
A new chore for this office, as a result of these troubled times, is keeping
track of the Bankruptcy filings and submitting claims to the Bankruptcy
Court for taxes owed the town. These unpaid taxes are taken into consideration
by the State at the time the tax rate is set.
All this was accomplished by a staff of one temporary part-time worker
(134 hours), one part-time Deputy (1182 hours), and one full-time Tax
Collector who want to thank the tax payers of Hampton for a year of
collections which, in spite of the hard times, was better than the collections
of 1990!
Respectfully submitted,
Peg Arguin, Deputy Tax Collector
Ann Kaiser, Tax Collector
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